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Amor y Amistad es una selección completa de los escritos de Jane Austen de su periodo juvenil. En estos escritos se ven reflejados los elementos que más tarde conformarían el mundo adulto de la escritora: ingenio, ironía, construcción, sarcasmo hacia lo romántico y comentarios sociales despiadados.

Marcus, a lonely boy, is adopted by Daniel as a friend and invites him to join his busy family where Honoria, his younger sister, is part of it. Years later, Daniel asks Marcus to take care of Honoria while he's away, she feels irritated because when she finally finds someone acceptable, it should be discussed between what society dictates and what her heart demands.

Thirteen classic Sherlock Holmes mysteries, complete and unabridged, in a newly packaged electronic edition - featuring full-page illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele (the premiere American illustrator of the Sherlock Holmes stories) and a ten page introduction by Andrew Malec. Steele's illustrations - modelled upon the features of William Gillette - add colour and spice to Doyle's tales. Witness Holmes' dramatic return; observe the downfall of Milverton, 'king of blackmailers'; and crack the cryptic message of the Dancing Men - all the while, allowing Steele's beautiful and thoughtful...

Published here for the first time in a modern edition, Charlotte Smith’s third novel is both rivetingly plotted and unique for its time in its powerful depiction of a gifted Romantic woman poet. The novel’s heroine, Celestina, abandoned as a child in a French convent, becomes an independent, witty, and accomplished elegiac poet who, in a reversal of the usual pattern of the courtship novel, acts as a mentor to several men in her life. Written at the beginning of the French Revolution, Smith’s novel depicts characters challenging both corrupt authority and conventional morality,...